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Nelson Mandela News and Photosen-cawebstaff@therepublic.comCopyright 2015Posthumous Nelson Mandela memoir to be published in 2016http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/341d11747e5249a196fe6aea19db01d4/EU--Britain-Nelson-Mandela-Memoirhttp://www.therepublic.com/view/story/341d11747e5249a196fe6aea19db01d4/EU--Britain-Nelson-Mandela-Memoir

LONDON - A posthumous memoir by Nelson Mandela, recounting his time as South Africa's first democratically elected president, is scheduled to be published around the world next year.]]>

Mon, 23 Mar 2015 20:43:08 -0400Singapore's Lee seen as an inspiration for modern Chinahttp://www.therepublic.com/view/story/aba2dba1d86b44599e0dc2de146c158e/AS--China-Lee-Kuan-Yewhttp://www.therepublic.com/view/story/aba2dba1d86b44599e0dc2de146c158e/AS--China-Lee-Kuan-Yew

BEIJING - Chinese leaders admired modern Singapore's founder Lee Kuan Yew for his toughness, economic pragmatism and insistence on respect for authority. In many ways, Lee's model of "Asian values," combining authoritarianism and economic planning, became China's own blueprint for modernity.]]>

NEW YORK - Madonna had to pull a Kanye West on Kanye West to get the rapper-producer to focus in the studio.]]>

Wed, 11 Mar 2015 10:53:34 -0400Foreign talks to Congress often a yawn, but not Netanyahu'shttp://www.therepublic.com/view/story/6e3982a32ca04de3b0d44214a413df10/US--Congress-Foreign-Talkershttp://www.therepublic.com/view/story/6e3982a32ca04de3b0d44214a413df10/US--Congress-Foreign-Talkers